Photos
2008 Spring Haute Route trip photos: from Argentiere, France to Zermatt, Switzerland.
Copyright by Nick O’Connell
Copyright by Nick O’Connell
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIt is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.
V.S. Naipaul“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark TwainThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
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